EP 2022059 A2 20090211 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING STORAGE PERFORMANCE USING A BACKGROUND ERASE
Title (en)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING STORAGE PERFORMANCE USING A BACKGROUND ERASE
Title (de)
VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR VERBESSERUNG DER SPEICHERLEISTUNG MITHILFE DER HINTERGRUNDLÖSCHUNG
Title (fr)
PROCÉDÉ ET APPAREIL PERMETTANT D'AMÉLIORER LES CAPACITÉS DE STOCKAGE AU MOYEN D'UN EFFACEMENT D'ARRIÈRE-PLAN
Publication
Application
Priority
- US 2007012416 W 20070523
- US 44251406 A 20060525
Abstract (en)
[origin: US7742344B2] Disclosed are an apparatus, method, and computer readable medium configured for performing a background erase in a memory device. Included is the act of receiving at least one erase command and at least one erasable block address for the memory device. Also included is the act of asserting a background-process-busy flag after receiving the at least one erase command and the at least one erasable block address. At least one block in the memory associated with the at least one erasable block address is erased, wherein the erasing occurs at a time delay after receiving the at least one erase command if a background enable flag is asserted. Finally, the background-process-busy flag is negated after the erasing is complete.
IPC 8 full level
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP KR US)
G11C 16/10 (2013.01 - KR); G11C 16/102 (2013.01 - EP US); G11C 16/16 (2013.01 - EP KR US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MT NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated extension state (EPC)
AL BA HR MK RS
DOCDB simple family (publication)
US 2007274134 A1 20071129; US 7564721 B2 20090721; AT E486351 T1 20101115; CN 101479806 A 20090708; CN 101479806 B 20121010; DE 602007010129 D1 20101209; EP 2022059 A2 20090211; EP 2022059 B1 20101027; KR 101060799 B1 20110830; KR 20090025256 A 20090310; US 2009257284 A1 20091015; US 7742344 B2 20100622; WO 2007139901 A2 20071206; WO 2007139901 A3 20080320; WO 2007139901 B1 20080522
DOCDB simple family (application)
US 44251406 A 20060525; AT 07795303 T 20070523; CN 200780023559 A 20070523; DE 602007010129 T 20070523; EP 07795303 A 20070523; KR 20087031195 A 20070523; US 2007012416 W 20070523; US 49184609 A 20090625